“Our opposition to [ISIS] will continue at home and abroad. It is important that we are clear about the nature of the threat we are facing. It makes no distinction between cultures, countries and religions. There is no way to appease it. The only way to defeat it is to stand firm and to send a very straightforward message: a country like ours will not be cowed by these barbaric killers. If they think that we will weaken in the face of their threats, they are wrong. It will have the opposite effect.” ~ British Prime Minister David Cameron

We are approaching the second anniversary of the Benghazi debacle that left an American Ambassador dead along with three other Americans—still without an understanding of “What difference [did] it make?” Except that our “lead from behind” policies have permitted a Libya left to the whims of various jihadi elements. And in the run-up to this year’s 9/11, Bill Gertz reminds us (Click here.) that 11 Libyan jetliners have been missing for a month . . . wonder where they went?Hmmmmm.

With the anniversaries of the 9/11/2001 attack as well as the deadly attack on Benghazi fast approaching, intelligence officials in the U.S. and elsewhere are increasingly on the alert. And what’s just been reported by several news outlets could give counter-terrorism experts reason to heighten their alert status.

Have We Seen This Act Before?

Such a consideration should lead to someconsiderable trepidation as we also approach the thirteenth anniversary of September 11, 2001—when 19 al Qaeda operatives with box-cutters killed nearly 3000 Americans by non-pilots flying hijacked commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon—and except for passengers on United 93 taking charge and crashing a fourth jetliner in Pennsylvania, that aircraft would likely have targeted the White House or the Capitol.

Note that the subsequent 9/11 Commission noted we had ample warning but missed it, in large measure because our intelligence community was so partitioned that key information was not shared with folks who obviously had a “need to know” to protect U.S. interests and the American people. We treated previous terrorist activities as law enforcement matters. Wenow seem to be regressing to that same approach—no “war on terror,” rather criminal prosecution.

So, What's our Strategy?

The President said last week that he had no strategy—“yet”—for dealing with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS = ISIL = Islamic State = IS = Caliphate), clarified this week to mean only strategy for military action in Syria. But that clarification really doesn’t help very much, especially when considering his further clarifications in Estonia yesterday, which suggest that he is still figuring out what should be his strategyto deal with, as he says, the “always messy” matters of foreign policy.

His “clarifications” varied in a matter of minutes from something sounding like strategy for “destroying ISIS” to a strategy of “managing ISIS.”

Manage ISIS?Manage these butchers who, in the name of Allah, execute prisoners in mass, behead Americans (among others), crucify Christian men (and others), rape and enslave women and kill children? Not to worry. Really???

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The President’s apologists are again telling us everything is under control. Hmmmm.

I much prefer Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron’s response to ISIS. In raising the United Kingdom’s threat level to “Severe” in the wake of recent ISIS activities, he stated unequivocally,“The root cause of this threat to our security is clear: it is a poisonous ideology of Islamic extremism that is condemned by all states.” (Click here.)

And our erstwhile ally, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia last Friday told a reception of ambassadors, including ours: “If neglected, I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, after another month, America.”(Click here.)

Signs of the Times.

Frankly, I’m not sure we have that long. Consider a few more signs of the time:

Last week the Metcalf Substation near San Jose, California was again attacked, despite an alleged major upgrade of its security systems after the April 16, 2013 attack that nearly led to a major loss of the electric grid throughout Silicon Valley. (Check here.) So much for our alleged security measures

Over a hundred Americans and over a thousand Europeans have joined ISIS in their operations in Iraq and Syria—and they can enter the U.S. on their current passports.

At least one of these held security clearances at the Minneapolis Airport.

Thousands of foreign nationals have been admitted into the United States as students and then lost while they overstay their visas.

Islamic elements are reported to be crossing the border from Mexico to the United States, along with the tide of illegal immigration.

There are Islamic cells in numerous U.S. citieswhich may connect with the jihadi elements of the above.

And the jihadis understand the vulnerability of the grid—last June they shut down the entire electric grid in Yemen (Click here.)

And there are even more threatening scenarios than a repetition of past experiences—perhaps intended to take down major portions of our nation’s electric power grid. For example, the attack scenarios could involvemultiple Metcalf-like attacks at a number of electric gird substations—perhaps even the nine identified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that could take down the entire grid. (Click here.)

They could—probably would—be combined with concurrent cyber attacks to disable systems intended to monitor, support and control the grid.

What can you do?

Join us in praying for our nation, and for a rebirth of the freedom sought, achieved and passed to us by those who came before us.

Help us to spread our message to the grass roots and to encourage all “powers that be” to provide for the common defense as they are sworn to do.

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